Re: [PATCH 5/5] git-svn: re-map repository URLs and UUIDs on SVK mirror paths

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote:
> Eric Wong wrote:
> > Also, incremental fetches (or fetching more than 1k sequential
> > revisions) would probably fail.  To fix this, read the offset of last
> > entry in .rev_db instead of git-svn-id: from the last commit to get the
> > last revision.  But since rebuild won't work as expected; losing the
> > .rev_db file means you wouldn't be able to fetch from the SVK repo
> > anymore (but the original upstream one will be fine).
> > 
> > One last thing: feature should be made optional.  I actually work
> > day-to-day on a repository that was created with svm/SVN::Mirror,
> > the original repository no longer exists; but the mirrored one
> > still has these properties (I suppose I could remove the props
> > server-side, but some people may not have the permissions).
> 
> ok, I'll work on that and the other issues you highlighted... possibly
> the overhead of fetching the revprops during mirroring might hurt a
> little for people not doing this, too.  Thanks for reviewing the patch!

For the git-svn in master using the delta fetcher; there's no additional
overhead to fetch properties.  I want to ditch the old non-delta
fetching code (it's only a mild performance benefit when using local
repositories) if I could get do_switch() working correctly.

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